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Aitken, Robert Grant

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Born  Jackson, California, USA, 31 December 1864

Died  Berkeley, California, USA, 29 October 1951

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  • Aitken, Robert Grant (1964). The Binary Stars. New York: Dover.

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  • Lang, Harry G. and Bonnie Meath‐Lang (1995). Deaf Persons in the Arts and Sciences: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood.

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  • van den Bos, W. H. (1952). “Robert Grant Aitken.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 112: 271–273.

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  • ——— (1958). “Robert Grant Aitken.” Biographical Memoirs, National Academy of Sciences 32: 1–30.

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  1. Harry G. Lang
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  1. Department of Earth Science, University of Northern Iowa, Office: Latham 112, 50614, Cedar Falls, IA, USA

    Thomas Hockey (Professor of Astronomy) (Professor of Astronomy)

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Lang, H.G. (2007). Aitken, Robert Grant. In: Hockey, T., et al. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_25

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